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🦅Birds🦉Wildlife✦Heritage
Free entryDogs welcome0 ha
Getting here
51.67345, -1.27242
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Visiting this summer
Seasonal nature notes and what to look for now
- 🐦64+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Woodpigeon and Blue Tit
- ✦Historic character is a year-round quality here — summer brings its own atmosphere to the setting
- 🛝Playground on site — built-in entertainment for younger visitors alongside the wider site
🌤️ Visiting this summer
- 🐦64+ species recorded in this area — summer evenings are best for activity; watch for Woodpigeon and Blue Tit
- ✦Historic character is a year-round quality here — summer brings its own atmosphere to the setting
- 🛝Playground on site — built-in entertainment for younger visitors alongside the wider site
- £Free to visit — no entry charge
- 🐕Dogs welcome
🅿️Parking· Paid🛝Playground
🦅Bird watching
Very strong match
Birds — Woodpigeon, Blue Tit, Mallard +61 more · last seen 2026
Free
Birds — Woodpigeon, Blue Tit, Mallard +61 more · last seen 2026
Free
🦋Insect spotting
Good match
Insects — 7-spot Ladybird, 16-spot Ladybird, Green Shieldbug +9 more · last seen 2026
Free
🏡Historic gardens
Moderate match
Historic site
Varies
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km9 signed routes nearby · 16 public paths nearby
Signed route nearbyPublic paths
Oxford Green Belt WayWalking route87 km▾
Named routeLength 87 kmRegional walking route
Shakespeare's WayWalking route235 km▾
Named routeLength 235 kmRegional walking route
Ramblers Jubilee Circular WalkWalking route▾
Named routeLocal walking route
The Vale WayWalking route43 km▾
Route through the Vale of White Horse in Oxfordshire, UK. (27 miles).
Named routeLength 43 kmLocal walking route
European walking route E2 west, UK, South East EnglandWalking route▾
Westroute: Stranraer (UK) - Birminhgham (UK) - Calais (FR) - Zoersel (BE) / Eastroute: Stranraer (UK) - Harwich (UK) - Rotterdam (NL) - Zoersel (BE) / Both Routes: Zoersel (BE) - Maastrich (NL) - Luxembourg (LUX) - Lake Geneva (CH) - Nice (FR)
Named routeRef E2International walking route
Abingdon Weirpublic footpath · 12 m▾
Public pathpublic footpathLength 12 mSurface pavedPath type: footway
67 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
National Cycle Network Route 5Cycling route▾
Named routeRef 5National Cycle Network
Eaton - WoottonCycling route▾
Named routeXcn
Route 7Cycling route▾
Named routeRef 7Local cycle route
Route 6Cycling route▾
Named routeRef 6Local cycle route
Wootton-KenningtonCycling route▾
Named routeXcn
Didcot to Culham Science CentreCycling route▾
Named routeRef 8Local cycle route
Photos
Thames Path at Barton Fields
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Wildlife to spot
87,445 records · National Biodiversity Network
Wildlife to spot
87,445 records · National Biodiversity NetworkMallard · Woodpigeon · Long-tailed Tit · Blue Tit · Black-headed Gull +40
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus
- RobinErithacus rubecula
- BlackbirdTurdus merula
- MagpiePica pica
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto
- CootFulica atra
- Mute SwanCygnus olor
- Great TitParus major
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2025
- GadwallMareca strepera
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus
- CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo2025
- Egyptian GooseAlopochen aegyptiaca2025
- Red-crested PochardNetta rufina2025
- Greylag GooseAnser anser
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs
- House SparrowPasser domesticus
- RedwingTurdus iliacus
- Tufted DuckAythya fuligula
- JackdawColoeus monedula2025
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major
- Great Crested GrebePodiceps cristatus
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes
- Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollis2025
- DunnockPrunella modularis2025
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos2025
- BlackcapSylvia atricapilla2025
- Herring GullLarus argentatus2025
- TreecreeperCerthia familiaris
- Coal TitPeriparus ater
- Mistle ThrushTurdus viscivorus2025
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus2025
- Grey WagtailMotacilla cinerea2025
- Rock DoveColumba livia2025
- GoosanderMergus merganser2025
- GreenfinchChloris chloris2025
- Reed BuntingEmberiza schoeniclus2025
Hedgehog · Muntjac · Indian Muntjac · Grey Squirrel
- HedgehogErinaceus europaeus
- MuntjacMuntiacus reevesi
- Indian MuntjacMuntiacus muntjak
- Grey SquirrelSciurus carolinensis
🐝Insects9 species
winterspring
2026▾
7-spot Ladybird · Dark-edged Bee-fly · 16-spot Ladybird · Dock Bug · Green Shieldbug +4
- 7-spot LadybirdCoccinella septempunctata
- Dark-edged Bee-flyBombylius major
- 16-spot LadybirdTytthaspis sedecimpunctata
- Dock BugCoreus marginatus
- Green ShieldbugPalomena prasina
- Scarlet TigerCallimorpha dominula
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Wildlife to spot
87,445 records · National Biodiversity NetworkMallard · Woodpigeon · Long-tailed Tit · Blue Tit · Black-headed Gull +40
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus
- RobinErithacus rubecula
- BlackbirdTurdus merula
- MagpiePica pica
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto
- CootFulica atra
- Mute SwanCygnus olor
- Great TitParus major
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2025
- GadwallMareca strepera
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus
- CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo2025
- Egyptian GooseAlopochen aegyptiaca2025
- Red-crested PochardNetta rufina2025
- Greylag GooseAnser anser
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs
- House SparrowPasser domesticus
- RedwingTurdus iliacus
- Tufted DuckAythya fuligula
- JackdawColoeus monedula2025
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major
- Great Crested GrebePodiceps cristatus
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes
- Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollis2025
- DunnockPrunella modularis2025
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos2025
- BlackcapSylvia atricapilla2025
- Herring GullLarus argentatus2025
- TreecreeperCerthia familiaris
- Coal TitPeriparus ater
- Mistle ThrushTurdus viscivorus2025
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus2025
- Grey WagtailMotacilla cinerea2025
- Rock DoveColumba livia2025
- GoosanderMergus merganser2025
- GreenfinchChloris chloris2025
- Reed BuntingEmberiza schoeniclus2025
Hedgehog · Muntjac · Indian Muntjac · Grey Squirrel
- HedgehogErinaceus europaeus
- MuntjacMuntiacus reevesi
- Indian MuntjacMuntiacus muntjak
- Grey SquirrelSciurus carolinensis
🐝Insects9 species
winterspring
2026▾
7-spot Ladybird · Dark-edged Bee-fly · 16-spot Ladybird · Dock Bug · Green Shieldbug +4
- 7-spot LadybirdCoccinella septempunctata
- Dark-edged Bee-flyBombylius major
- 16-spot LadybirdTytthaspis sedecimpunctata
- Dock BugCoreus marginatus
- Green ShieldbugPalomena prasina
- Scarlet TigerCallimorpha dominula
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Marmalade Hoverfly
Marmalade Hoverfly
Episyrphus balteatus
Episyrphus balteatus
Common QuakerOrthosia cerasiCommon QuakerOrthosia cerasiPellitory BeautyCosmopterix pulchrimellaPellitory BeautyCosmopterix pulchrimella